Would be nice to be able to move to a new high-performing platform and be able to take your current DDR2 with ya...there is definitely a market for this. Something like the 4870s in the gpu market; high performing, decent value for the dollar.

Would be nice to be able to move to a new high-performing platform and be able to take your current DDR2 with ya...there is definitely a market for this. Something like the 4870s in the gpu market; high performing, decent value for the dollar.

I think this is AMD's new platform in general...let the other big boys have there big toys until they get there stuff together focus on your core focus on the major markets..one at a time rebuild yourself better.... faster..... stronger...sh..sh..sh.sh..sh..sh (or whatever the 6 million $ man sound effect looks like in type)

Ya i think amd will just go for the mainstream and budget markets to rebuild then take one out of atis books where out of nowhere the decimate the "leader" and pretty much cripple them, it may take a few years but they can do it.

Maybe, just MAYBE, AMD is working on a new chipset that "fuses" the power of the 4000 and 5000 series of GPUs with the next gen Phenoms to produce unprecedented power. MWAHAHAHAHAHAHA. lol. I could see this happening, though. That's the reason why AMD bought ATi. That's what the whole Spider platform was all about, but they couldn't get it going all that well...

I've been making heavy use of the Phenom 9950 BE lately due to its low price point compared to Intel's offerings (The last 2 9950s I used were $187 and $196 respectively when the Q6600 was going for $220 and $224). Both of them clocked up to at least 3 GHz without any increase in voltage (3.0 and 3.1 GHz respectively) and, because they're unlocked, I can use dirt cheap memory and not worry about compromising the overclock.

I've been pretty impressed with the motherboards as well (Gigabyte GA-MA770-DS3 and Gigabyte GA-MA790GP-DS4H) and, combined with 8/16 GB of memory and an HD 4830/4850, they are insanely quick in Vista, both systems were made for under $1200 before taxes.

The only thing I've found that's an issue is that AMD's Overdrive is not nearly as reliable as I hoped it would be. Actually, I had to reformat one of the computers because I couldn't remove the AMD Overdrive Assistant service, which kept overclocking on startup (I left it at 3.0 GHz, but the owner wanted to try 3.2 GHz), causing a BSOD and even manually setting the Multiplier in BIOS didn't prevent Overdrive from changing it.